Mahmoud Rahnama – Pixomondo : “Discovering the VFX of Start Trek”

Mahmoud Rahnama – Pixomondo : “Discovering the VFX of Start Trek”

Like George Melies of old, visual effects artists today are magicians, creating illusions that leave audiences astonished and amazed. Especially when you’re dealing with a property as iconic as Star Trek, the bar for your visual effects magic is set incredibly high. How do you maintain a cinematic standard on a highly anticipated television series? Join us as Mahmoud Rahnama discusses the challenges behind Pixomondo’s work on Star Trek Discovery. He will focus on different aspects of their pipeline, and how they managed to turn around hundreds of shots per episode on tight deadlines to produce some of the best quality visual effects seen in television today.

Conference in English.

Friday 30th, 11.15 – 12.15 (Auditori)

Mahmoud Rahnama is a VFX Supervisor and head of the Toronto Studio. Throughout his career Mahmoud has worked on various feature films, TV series and video games.
Mahmoud is also a teacher and has been teaching Visual Effects for film and television for more than 12 years.